Former Richmond Railway Station
The Station, Station Yard, Richmond, DL10 4LD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1157668
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Former Richmond Railway Station
- Statutory Address:
- The Station, Station Yard, Richmond, DL10 4LD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1157668
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1969
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Former Richmond Railway Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Station, Station Yard, Richmond, DL10 4LD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- The Station, Station Yard, Richmond, DL10 4LD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Martin's
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 17652 00870
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15 April 2024 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards
NZ 10 SE
4/116
ST MARTINS
STATION YARD
The Station
(Formerly listed as RICHMONDSHIRE RECREATION CENTRE Richmond Garden and Farm Supply Centre, previously listed as Richmond Railway Station)
4.3.69
GV
II*
Railway passenger station, later garden centre. c1846. By G T Andrews for George Hudson's Great North of England Railway. Sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, Welsh slate and glass roof. Jacobethan style. Triple-depth plan. Single-storey; nine-bay train-shed fronted by eleven-bay office range with five-bay porte-cochère further to the front. Plinth. Quoins.
Porte-cochère: arcade of moulded four-centred arches divided by stepped buttresses. String with gargoyles, parapet. Inner wall, from left: three-light mullion and transom window; leaved door in surround with moulded stop-chamfered jambs and with moulded corbels supporting lintel; part-glazed leaved door with similar jambs and three-light mullioned overlight; two-light mullion and transom window; main entrance door with Perpendicular-style traceried panelling and wicket-door, in hollow-moulded pointed-arched doorway with label. To right of porte-cochère: three two-light mullion and transom windows; gabled slightly-projecting bay with canted-bay window with lead roof; two two-light mullion and transom windows. String, parapet. Welsh slate roofs, taller over porte-cochère. Ashlar copings to left section and also at right end. Tall ashlar stacks with strings and cornices: square at end left; double-octagon between bays two and three; lozenge at right end of porte-cochère; single octagon to left of gabled bay; double-octagon to right of gabled bay. Behind, glazed two-span roof of train shed.
To left of porte-cochère: single-storey lower range supporting wrought-iron water tank with roundel bearing legend "E THOMPSON YORK 1854".
Rear elevation of train shed: nine bays divided by stepped buttresses. Eight cross windows, the fifth bay blind. Glass roof over bays two-eight slightly raised with louvred ventilator below at junction with Welsh slate roof.
Left return: twin openings to train shed, now with C20 glazing below herringbone timber panelling in gables, each with a two-light window, a tie-beam decorated with tracery and traceried bargeboards.
Right return: to left, set back, lower gable of office range with two-light mullion and transom window; twin gables of train shed with canted-bay window with stone roof in centre and double mullion and transom window to right.
Interior: rooms in office range retain their panelled doors, cornices and some fireplaces. Ticket fixture in former ticket office. Shutters to windows from parcels office onto platform. Train shed: roof valley carried on octagonal hollow cast-iron columns, one bearing maker's name "JOHN WALKER YORK" (iron founder to Queen Victoria 1847-1853 and maker of the railings and gates for the British Museum, 1851). The connecting beams in the form of four-centred arches, with flat castings of Perpendicular-Tudor motifs in the spandrels. Suspension roof to train-shed spans. The station complex at Richmond forms an important group of railway buildings and is almost complete, only the goods station and coal-staithes having been demolished. The passenger station is of outstanding architectural importance, being one of the best of many good stations designed by G T Andrews for George Hudson (several now demolished), and executed with particularly high quality materials and craftsmanship. It formed the terminus of the Richmond branch line from Darlington. Biddle G & Nock O S, The Railway Heritage of Britain (1983), p 38; Malden J "The Walker Ironfoundry, York, c1825-1923", York Historian vol 1 (1976) pp 37-52.
Listing NGR: NZ1765200870
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 322182
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Biddle, G, Nock, OS, The Railway Heritage of Britain: 150 years of railway architecture and engineering, (1983), 38
Malden, J, York Historian in The Walker Iron Foundry York Circa 1825-1923, Vol. 1, (1976), 37-52
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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